sensitive to differences in quality and more responsive to changes in price!' The growth of the American economy resulted in increased rail and coke pig iron production, both oriented toward western Pennsylvania," and neither helpful to Lancaster County iron makers. The last anthracite furnace built in

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

Bloody Dawn A play by John W. W. Loose During Lancaster County's observance of the Republic's bicentennial of the American Revolution, the Quarryville Chamber of Commerce with the enthusiastic approval of the Lancaster County Bicentennial Committee decided to stage a gala event on Saturday, 26 June